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Published in: Home: AnalysisWhat the ‘Spycops’ inquiry isn’t telling us about state infiltrationThe undercover policing inquiry is downplaying spying on trade unions and government involvement in blacklisting
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Published in: Home: InvestigationExclusive: Environmental campaigners ‘spied on’ ahead of Sadiq Khan event
Video shows security official picking out campaigners by name and barring them from mayor of London debate at O2 arena
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Published in: Live discussionsCan we stop Big Tech getting inside our heads?
Social media and e-commerce giants are influencing what we buy, how we vote and who we love. Now the war in Ukraine...
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Published in: Technology and Democracy: OpinionDoes facial recognition tech in Ukraine’s war bring killer robots nearer?Clearview AI is offering its controversial tech to Ukraine for identifying enemy soldiers – while autonomous killing...
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Published in: Home: OpinionCulture wars: what is identity politics?For some, it’s a left-wing adoption of neoliberalism. For others, it’s authoritarian. But it’s really just about...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: FeatureThe rise of the border and surveillance industry and why you should be concernedOur world is becoming more walled due to the influence of private profiteers on governments – and increasingly...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesBio-surveillance, invisible borders and the dangerous after-effects of COVID-19 measuresLong after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, we may continue to be affected by its residue of ultra-sophisticated...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEspionage and repression in the Middle East courtesy of the WestWestern companies are providing surveillance tools to authoritarian regimes in the Middle East.
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Published in: ourEconomyNeoliberalism is over – welcome to the era of neo-illiberalismBig tech, nationalist politics, and the billionaire class have propelled a novel political economy. What impact will...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow facial recognition technology is bringing surveillance capitalism to our streetsFacial recognition cameras are bringing the datafication of the internet to the real world, threatening our right to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAre China’s facial recognition trials really the example the Met police want to follow?“Each face is algorithmically cast over with suspicion, checked against the authority’s blacklist”.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOnce we searched Google, now Google searches usMark Kernan reviews Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or Facebook – it’s “surveillance capitalism”We’ve ended up with an internet built not for us – but for corporations, political parties, and the state’s...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUAE recruiting ‘elite task force’ for secret surveillance stateA security researcher says he was offered $20,000 a month to help the UAE government spy on the public.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAbu Dhabi announces launch of Israeli-installed mass surveillance systemThe Internet of Things applies unique identifiers to objects, including people to be followed, and provides large...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPoisoned apple: the curse of social media in the GulfThe increased social media use in the Gulf might signify some progress for its citizens, but the extent to which it...
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Published in: ourBeebHow did mistrust of mainstream media become a sign of violent extremism?The UK Government’s Prevent strategy has led to official claims that mistrust of mainstream media and anger about...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSurveillance, the British and US debates compared
In Britain, allegedly, no one cares that the state is collecting vast data on all of us. In the US things are...
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Published in: TransformationWhat happens to democracy in a cashless society?New technology is transforming the way we pay for everything, but at what cost?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCharlie Hebdo and western denialThe recent attacks in Paris were the latest round in a conflict of violence, not of “values”. The primary...
